Paris — Oil pastel & oil stick on paper

I paint Black
people green.

Because green is the colour they chose for themselves — and no one can take it back.

Oil pastel.
Real paper.
A specific argument.

I'm Alexandre Desane, painter based in Paris. My figures have no faces and green skin — not as abstraction, but as a position. Green carries what black never could as a word: regeneration, power, the hand that grows back.

nopaintbrush.com is where you buy the work directly. Major works and institutional documentation live on adesane.com.

About the practice
Alexandre Desane — studio, Paris